Joseph J. Mersman


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The Whiskey Merchant’s Diary

An Urban Life in the Emerging Midwest

Joseph J. Mersman was a liquor merchant, a German American immigrant who aspired—successfully—to become a self-made man. Hundreds of the residents of Mersman's hometown in Germany immigrated to Cincinnati in the 1830s, joining many thousands of other German immigrants.…

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